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Many of you might not know that the first use of radar in a battlefield situation was during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Just prior to the attack by Japanese aircraft, U.S. Army personnel were training on brand-new radar equipment when they spotted incoming aircraft, but the warning was thought to be [...]

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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. The U.S. Marine Corps Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) Block 1 completed live developmental testing with support from the Navy's Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC) at Wallops Island from April 10 to June 21.

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Every month the McHale Report will host an online roundtable with experts from the defense electronics industry – from major prime contractors to defense component suppliers. Each roundtable will explore topics important to the military embedded electronics market. This month we discuss radio frequency (RF) & microwave technology trends, Gallium Nitride (GaN) adoption within military applications [...]

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EVERETT, Wash. The Boeing-built KC-46 tanker has completed electromagnetic testing. This testing evaluates the aircraft’s ability to safely operate through electromagnetic fields produced by radars, radio towers, and other systems under mission conditions.

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To solve tough problems like synthetic aperture radar, sensor fusion, and target recognition processing, the military wants and needs performance. That requirement means getting the fastest throughput in the smallest package with the lowest power penalty. The hunger for performance is even more true for autonomous platforms – from aircraft to ground vehicles – that [...]

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SAN DIEGO. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that its Modular Systems Division (MSD) recently received a contract award worth approximately $23 million for hardware and specialized modular systems that will support a strategic surveillance radar system.

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MERRIMACK, N.H. BAE Systems has received a $4.6 million contract to work on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Mobile Offboard Clandestine Communications and Approach (MOCCA) program.

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The terms of the contract call for the partners to upgrade the Typhoon’s “Praetorian” DASS in order to meet the Royal Air Force’s future operational requirements. The contract is part of a continuous capability upgrade to ensure the U.K. Typhoon fleet can identify and defeat known and emerging threats. Praetorian is a suite of protective electronic [...]

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Under the terms of the five-year agreement, ManTech will provide NAVAIR NAWCAD with warfare analysis and assessments, acquisition analysis and support, modeling and simulation, weapons systems technical publications and training, software development, data handling, and warfare analysis laboratory services. The work will span such naval mission areas such as air, strike, and amphibious warfare; command, control, and [...]

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DUBLIN. The global X-band radar market is set to rise at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 4.9 percent over the next decade, to reach approximately $8.24 billion by 2025, according to an Accuray Research report offered by Research and Markets.